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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
30,920 approved · 3,828 refused · 1,121 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 1995 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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43 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3UB
Received 16 Apr 2009N V ROFFE AND DAUGHTER 46 CHAPEL GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0EE
Received 14 Jun 2018Bull Hotel and land at rear Market Place/Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 6 Jul 2006Winters Lane Storage Ltd Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BE
Received 3 Feb 2011Land adjacent 139a Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 8 May 2007Homebase Ltd Westlode Street Spalding
Received 24 Jan 2007Neame Lea Nursery Green Lane Boston Road, Gosberton
Received 27 Nov 20033 CHURCH LANE DONINGTON SPALDING PE11 4UD
Received 1 Oct 2014Broadgate Whaplode Drove Spalding
Received 12 Dec 2019Laburnam House Barn Northgate Pinchbeck Spalding, Lincs. PE11 3SQ
Received 31 Dec 2003Plot rear 2 Wardentree Lane Pinchbeck
Received 12 Nov 2008Monmouth Farm Monmouth Lane Lutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9LH
Received 21 Oct 2010Mackays 11/12 Bridge Street Spalding
Received 7 Jun 2004Station Yard Donington Spalding
Received 7 Feb 2001Thomas Cowley High School School Lane Donington Spalding PE11 4TF
Received 6 Mar 2024HOMEFIELDS JARVIS GATE SUTTON ST JAMES SPALDING PE12 0ER
Received 23 Jan 2019APPLE TREE FARM CAWOOD HALL CAWOOD LANE GOSBERTON PE11 4HB
Received 17 Nov 2017Plot adjacent 52 Cowbit Road Spalding
Received 20 Feb 2008Land to rear The Bull Hotel Bull Lane Long Sutton
Received 28 Jan 2008Crescent Car Park Foundry Lane Spalding
Received 30 Sept 2019Plot 4, Cherry Croft (Phase 7A) Woolram Wygate Spalding
Received 27 Oct 1997West Barn Shetland Cottage Mill Green Road Pinchbeck PE11 3PY
Received 28 Jul 2023Land Southwest of Chalk Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding
Received 22 Jul 202439 Hallgate Holbeach
Received 4 Aug 2006Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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